The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Weekly News Summary.

postmaster at BreaUlOhI (NlpLOn).
THERE is now a mail route established
between Grand Isle and North Hero.
THE steamer Williams" made her first
regular trip to Pittsburgh Saturday.
EDWARD SUMNER of Rutland committed
suicide last week by taking Paris green.
G.. b. EVANS, who has been in the GUS
toms service at Island Pond has been
ordered for duty at st, Adams.
MALIGNANT diphtheria is prevalent at Bel
lows Falls, and the board of health has
adopted preventive measures.
SEVERAL Of the recent liquor seizures and
prosecutions at WinoosN were on com
plants signed by women under the new law.
YOU'VE GooDING of Winooski, who mys-
teriously disappeared last week, has re-
turned home, but gives no reason for his
absence
The Soldiers Home has been presented
by Colonel j. j. Estey of Brattleboro with
forty war scenes by the celebrated artist
Edwin Forbes.
REV. GEORGE A. GATES, who has been
called to the presidency of the Iowa State
College, was recent principal of Norris
vile Academy.
Ex-GovERNoR PINGREE of Hartford will
deliver the Memorial day address at Monroe,
N. H., and Rev. j. n. Emery of Bellows
Falls at NARROW, n. II.
A PROMINENT Knight of Labor said re-
Gently that there are now nearly 5000 MEM
bers of the order in the towns of Rutland,
West Rutland and Proctor.
Two carloads of maple sugar nearly 10000
pounds, were shipped last week by Dandy
man to one consignee at Minneapolis, Mimi,
who takes il on speculation.
THE season is more than three weeks later
than that of 1886. Our citizens were eating
asparagus from their own gardens on the
10th of April last burlington Free Press.
PATENTS have been granted lately to
Scion K. Moore, assignor of one-half to q.
w. Squires, Swanton, for a buckle, and to
Harry w auckland, Swanton, for gar
ment support.
ANNIE WALKER, ten years old, arrived at
Castleton last Friday, having travelled from
England alone. She had a card sewed to
her dress on which was written the address
of her mother, widow at Castleton.
THE bridge from Isle La Motto to Alburgh
is covered with water in places from eight
to ten inches deep. The highway on the
Isle La Motto shore leading to the bridge is
covered in places to the depth of three feet.
THOMAS II. CANFIELD of Burlington has
won his suit in the United States supreme
court, being the title to the Minneapolis fair
grounds, now said to be worth over 100000.
These grounds he purchased in 1873, paying
therefor $4,000.
The Central Vermont Railroad Company
has purchased steel rails for laying thirty
two miles on the Rutland division, which
will, with those already laid, put this di-
vision all in steel. The rails are said to
have cost more than 100000.
S. BEACH of Burlington has crab-apple
which was picked in the fall of 1898, and is
therefore forty-nine years old. 1t has been
kept in a tin box, and with the exception of
being considerably wrinkled, is in an excel
lent state of preservation.-Free Press.
WILDER LEWIS, aged sixty years, we'll
TODD and much-respected citizen of Wells,
was killed instantly last Friday by piece
of board flying from a circular-saw and
striking him in the stomach. He leaves
wife and one daughter, Mrs. o. l.. Goodrich
of Granville.
EDWARD W. LEWIS, station agent of the
Passumpsic railroad at Norwich, committed
suicide at his house, April q, by shooting
sane, caused by ill-health. He had filed
the above position nearly twenty years.
He was about sixty-fve years old.
THE Burlington Free Press says that Rev.
r. Mott of East Middlebury mailed a letter
April addressed to the freight agent of
the Central Vermont road at Rutland, but
it did not reach its destination until April
22d-twenty days in going forty miles. The
letter was plainly addressed, with printed
return envelope.
BRAKEMAN HALL, on the White Mountain
division of the Boston & Lowell railroad,
was struck by car in the railroad yard at
st. Johnsbury on Saturday night, and one
set of trucks passed over him. cutting off
his right arm and mutilating his left hand.
A brother brakeman saw the accident, and,
jumping from the car pulled Hall out be-
fore the other wheels struck him.
CLIFFORD CAREY, aged about twenty, of
Greenfield, Mass, was driving cattle be-
tween Bellows Falls and Westminster about
midnight last Friday. High water covered
the road which was washed ont letting him
into the stream His cries for assistance
We're heard but when help arrived he could
not be found. The team was recovered.
The body was found next morning
The celebration of the nineteenth ami
versary of the Grand Army post at Burling-
ton, last week Wednesday, was a most i'm
posing affair, and was participated in by
many prominent men of the state, iuCud-
ing Governor Ormsbee and his staff. Mayor
w. w. Henry made the principal address.
The object of the meeting was to swell the
fund for the General Stannard monument.
1T is sometimes interesting to note with
what close attention and sympathy indi-
vidual members of an audience will follow
the progress of play in which sentiment
has prominent place. At the Rip Van
Wrinkle entertainment, on Monday night,
where, in the closing scene, Rip empties the
liquor on to the floor instead of down
his throat, one of the audience, who evil
IDENTIFY leans towards abstinence, called out:
" Good! "-MeSsenqer.
SUPERINTENDENT DART has issued
circular calling special attention to that
part of Governor Ormsbee's Arbor day
proclamation which refers to the adornment
of school-houses and grounds, and the
superintendent of education endorses the
governors suggestion by saying: Next to
our homes these school-houses, which are
the children's homes for good part of the
year, should be cared for and made attract
i've. There is no greater need or worther
object than that of the improvement of our
school-grounds and houses. Can we not
give one day in the year to this object for
the good of the children"
The contracts for the brick and wood
work, foundations etc, of the new Chit
tenden county Jail at Burlington will be
awarded to home contractors. The plans
show brick building thirty-eight by sew
enty feet, with two-story front for jail
er's residence. The building is to be plain
brick structure, with a slight terra-cotta or
namentation, and substantially built, with
slate roof. The jailer's house will be a COM
Portable home, containing ten rooms, the
first and second stories being finished in
hardwood and the attic in pine. The prin-
cipal Jail will contain cells of steel, ten in
number, on the rotary plan.
CHARLES A. BANCROFT, deputy-colector
at Richford, has been promoted to the posi-
ton at the customs office in Burlington
that d. A. Stone has filed and r. b. Gates
to that hitherto held by Mr.. Bancroft